How to Generate Demand with Real-Time Bidding

Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is one of the fastest-emerging technologies at the moment, with much to know and understand. This presentation will begin with a basic introduction to Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and why it matters to marketers. It will then cover how RTB can be used as an acquisition channel, along with specific actions that marketers need to take before getting started.

About the presenter:
Ratko Vidakovic is the Director of Marketing at SiteScout, the leading self-serve advertising platform for Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and Retargeting. He regularly writes on the topics of display advertising, retargeting and RTB. His articles have been published in places such as FOX Business, Marketing Land and AdMonsters.

AI is rapidly reshaping how retailers reach and engage customers across channels and in real time. And because your success in retail is so deeply interconnected with customer experience, from browsing to decision, purchase to post-purchase pleasure, AI is increasingly going from nice-to-have to necessity for higher sales and bigger bottom lines.

With billions of customer behavior data points, transactional histories in the trillions of dollars, and pinpoint segmenting, AI turns hazy ROI best-guess calculations into data-driven predictions. It helps you uncover new customers, and adds science to the art of targeting your audience.

Learn more about how retail organizations can use AI to find and evaluate customers, seize tailored opportunities along your customer’s journey, offer hyper-personalized recommendations and more, when you join this VB Live event!

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Attend this webinar and learn:
* How AI helps retailers curate content, offers, and experiences to revolutionize customer acquisition and engagement.
* How companies can leverage AI to uncover new markets
* The role of AI in data-powered email marketing (e.g. empowered segmentation), voice and visual search
* The future of AI in retail: What's next?

We all have strengths and qualities that make us unique. But in the hustle and bustle of life, and deliverables, and obligations, it’s easy to let our focus on that “special sauce” fall by the wayside.

In this seminar we’ll isolate ways to identify what you uniquely bring to the table, Scarlet will share some personal stories that have been turning points in making her own career more authentic and therefore successful, and we’ll talk through techniques to stay mindful of these strengths when things get busy. By honoring what makes each of us so great it is possible to drive more career satisfaction, success and… have some fun along the way!

The rise of ABM has inspired an important rethink of how best to measure marketing impact. Rather than focus on activities, outputs, and marketing-qualified leads, ABM-ers are shifting to account-based revenue metrics, such as pipeline contribution, funnel velocity, win rates, and deal size. But not all revenue is created equal.

Driving growth with new types of solutions, marquee accounts, and top priority markets can be especially significant to achieve strategic corporate objectives. To move ABM from revenue contributor to strategic growth driver, ABM-ers need to focus on all three R’s of strategic marketing: Reputation, Relationships, and Revenue.

Join ITSMA SVP Rob Leavitt to explore how the most effective ABM programs are bringing the 3 R’s down to the account level and using them to drive long-term corporate innovation, growth, and success.

This Webinar will focus on leveraging the latest technology to effectively and efficiently reach niche B2B audiences at scale.

By combining cutting-edge Digital Media technology with accurate offline data, participants will learn how to deliver their message to B2B decision makers with pinpoint accuracy to drive leads and increase revenue.

In the account-based game, you’re not looking for one big hit. You need your entire lineup to consistently perform across all nine innings. Join this webinar to learn how to draft the best accounts, manage your ABM campaign lineup, and keep score.

We will show you how to:

* Prioritize target accounts through a data-driven approach
* Manage full-funnel ABM campaigns
* Build an ABM scorecard for marketing and sales
* How to Knock Your ABM Out of the Park

Connecting with your target accounts and looking at customer lifetime value holistically are foundational components of any successful account-based marketing (ABM). From defining who they are, to converting them into loyal customers by working synergistically to consistently deliver an awesome buying and customer experience – when done right, ABM can incite a Go-to-Market “revolution” for enterprises. In this session, hear from Marketo CS alumna and now Head of Marketing at Folloze, a leading ABM Engagement Platform, how to best enable your “ABM Trifecta” – the collaborative efforts of your sales, marketing and CS teams – to engage, develop, win and RETAIN your top target accounts faster. Specifically, in this session you will learn:

•Best practices in defining and identifying your target accounts and how to set them up operationally
•What we mean by the “Bow-Tie Funnel Effect” and its role in enabling companies to be more customer-centric, while also optimizing for and sustaining revenue growth
•How the key to conversion (both from initial deal or by land-and-expand) is achieved through meaningful digital engagement that is education-driven and consultative – via the “ABM Trifecta”

In this presentation, Kelly Waffle will show how to make ABM programs more effective, efficient, and actionable by reaching the hard-to-reach buyer globally. Many talk about ABM, some run pilot programs, and a few see expectations meeting success. Kelly will share tips, proven techniques, and research to help you see success with:

Traditionally, B2B marketers have attempted to go wide with their campaigns in an effort to reach the largest number of people with a broadly appealing message. But for the past few years, leading companies have started to embrace Account Based Marketing, which identifies key accounts in the company portfolio and then targets them directly with content and messaging designed to appeal just to them.

The goal is typically to land or maintain high-value accounts that, together, can deliver 80% or more of annual revenues—and thereof deserve 80% or more of your marketing resources. This session will outline the benefits of ABM and offer a few cautions to beware of along the way—ensuring success as you embark on this new and effective journey.

Presented by Melanie Turek, VP Connected Work, Frost & Sullivan

As a Fellow and VP of Research for Connected Work at Frost & Sullivan, Melanie covers a broad range of markets, leveraging long-standing relationships with leading industry participants’ senior executives and customer organizations.

Melanie has more than 25 years' experience covering video and web conferencing, social networking, unified communications, voice, IP communications, instant messaging and presence, and the end-to-end customer experience, as well as a wide range of business software and services.

Melanie brings deep technical expertise and in-depth understanding of the ways in which technology can positively impact business processes and performance. She studied social anthropology at Harvard, and she views technology transformation through that lens.

If Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then it can certainly sometimes feel that Sales is from one universe while marketing is from a completely different one! But we know that when sales and marketing can align, great things happen - Marketo estimates that sales and marketing alignment can help your company become 67% better at closing deals. But although we know the benefits of sales and marketing alignment, we seem to struggle to achieve it with Forrester Research estimating that only 8% of companies have strong alignment between their sales and marketing departments.

What are the barriers to achieving alignment though? And most crucially can they be overcome? And assuming you want to drive better alignment, where do you actually start?

These are the types of challenges that Agent3 seeks to address with its customers as it helps them sell more to their key and named accounts. Joined by Julie Woods-Moss, ranked by Forbes as the 16th most influential CMO globally in 2017 and recently CMO at Tata Communications and John Seaner, CMO at 1010data, Greg Salmon, Senior Vice President, Agent 3 will host a webinar that has one aim; to help you better understand how to achieve sales and marketing alignment 'nirvana'. Drawing from his experience working with brands such as Cisco, Sony and Salesforce, Greg will quickly provide five immediate steps that you can take to drive better alignment before Julie and John provide their own examples of approaches that worked for them in driving better internal alignment at their respective organizations. Intended to provide readily applicable, 'real world' advice, this webinar will be an invaluable source of insight in helping you drive better sales and marketing alignment and, in the process, put you on the path to generating the 209% more revenue from marketing that Marketo believes can be gained form aligning sales and marketing.

ABM is not something marketing can do alone. One of the four basic principles is partnering with sales. So, whether you’re taking a one-to-one, one-to-few, or one-to-many approach to the accounts that matter most—or even a blended strategy—alignment with sales will be the difference between mediocre and outstanding results.

Join Bev Burgess, ITSMA’s ABM practice leader to explore the alignment you need for different types of ABM and the best ways to achieve sales buy-in and ongoing engagement with your program. Bev will draw on real examples from ITSMA's marketing excellence award winners as well as the latest research on best practices.

Samantha Kelly, owner of Tweetinggoddess.com and founder of the Womensinspirenetwork.com

In the noisy world of social media, it’s hard to stand out from the crowd. If you’re struggling to get your business message heard, you've come to the right place. Samantha can show you how to use social media marketing to connect with your ideal audience, increase brand awareness and harness the power of online community to generate real value for your business.

In this webinar, Samantha will explain:
-Why Twitter is great for business
-How to build awesome relationships
-How to engage your audience
-Tools to help you manage your social media
-How to track your success
-Twitter etiquette
-How to build a community

In this webinar, Metadata.io CEO Gil Allouche will talk about the different ways AI is being used by marketers. From analyzing data to orchestrating new marketing campaigns, AI is powering marketing activities in new and exciting ways and affecting interactions throughout the entire customer lifecycle. As an example of how AI can have a tremendous impact on marketing practices, Gil will focus on its role in lead generation. Webinar attendees will learn:

- What Machine Learning is in relation to AI and how it connects your data to find patterns
- Examples of how machine learning can identify target audiences, including the 20 percent that creates 80 percent of your revenue
- How AI technology can help marketers prioritize their budgets to focus on the most effective programs
- Starting with small, iterative uses of AI in marketing can be the most effective way to understand what will yield the most ROI

Gil Allouche founded Metadata.io to make demand generation easy for non-technical marketers. The Metadata.io platform and AI Operator evolved from Gil's experiences hacking various marketing and CRM systems to get the solutions he needed.

Social Selling strategy that helps clients build online relationships with their ideal prospects and then take that relationship offline. The leads and new business comes from these new relationships. LinkedIn is at the center of the strategy but it also can be extended to include Facebook, Twitter and email.

For this strategy to work for people, they need to be able to find their ideal prospects on LinkedIn, preferable 100's if not 1000's of them. Also people need to buy into the power of relationships to really embrace this strategy.

This webinar breaks down into two sections: Section 1 answers the question "What is Social Selling?" and section 2 takes people through a Social Selling Playbook, webinar registrants will get to see how to run a full social selling campaign.

The esports market is on fire. Last year 43 million people watched the League of Legends world championships, a multiplayer fighting game. And it's not a niche market of teenage boys in basements. A recent report found that 31 million people watch esports tournaments in the U.S., and more than double that -- 68M -- in China.

And the question is -- how do you monetize that at scale?

Look to the wild success of the Asia-Pacific esports companies. The companies who stage events like China’s 2017 Riot Championships, which posted more than 32 million viewers, have been able to compel customers to actually pay to view content, and even tip players, with the right streaming and payment technologies.

Don’t miss this VB Live event for keen insights from leaders in the space on how U.S. companies can effectively operate globally or begin to expand globally. You’ll learn how to confront the challenges that scaling your audience can pose and improve it, from west to east, as you look to capture more of the global audience opportunity.

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You’ll learn about:
* The opportunities provided by the growth in the esports streaming content market
* What's causing the streaming content surge and market growth
* The technology making this explosive esports growth possible on a global scale
* Confronting the problems around scale in markets like China and elsewhere

We’ve all seen the explosion of marketing technology companies over the past several years, clearly illustrated in Scott Brinker’s Marketing Technology Landscape that grew from 150 companies in 2011 to over 5,000 last year.

Today, we’re seeing many marketers who have been part of the martech tool buying spree in recent years take a step back and assess both how their stack works together and if they’re getting ROI from each piece. On the other hand, exciting developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have added capabilities and enhanced others.

So how do we make sense of the martech landscape today? How do you build a stack that answers business needs and takes advantage of cutting edge technology?

We’re excited to feature David Lewis, CEO of DemandGen, a leader at the forefront of making sense of today’s marketing tools for his clients, along with several innovative marketers who will discuss:

- Martech’s evolution in recent years
- Building a stack that makes business sense and delivers ROI
- Where martech is going, notably the impact of AI

When asked if they have good Sales and Marketing alignment, many leaders would quickly nod their heads. "Of course we do!" But when it comes down to it, is that alignment real? Are there clear SLAs in place for the treatment of leads and opportunities on both the Sales and Marketing sides? Is the impact of that alignment measurable? Do lead flow, reporting and other critical operations plumbing work as they should? How does this need to evolve as marketing is being asked to support growth across the customer experience?

We're excited to feature noted Marketing and Sales expert Matt Heinz, who will moderate a roundtable with visionaries from both functions where we'll discuss how to make tangible, measurable Sales and Marketing alignment a reality.

In this roundtable we'll cover topics like:

- How the best teams have operationalized Marketing and Sales' responsibilities
- How to measure the Marketing's influence at all stages of the buying cycle
- Which operational pitfalls to avoid

Every B2B marketer knows that great content is a key ingredient for winning growth strategy. Content marketing has changed dramatically since the “more is more” days. The best marketing teams, armed with better measurement capabilities, are taking a more thoughtful approach, delivering helpful, high-quality content and attributing its impact on growth. They’re also shifting their content mix. With 80% of web traffic expected to be video by 2020 (Cisco), streaming content like webinars and videos are no longer just a tick box for a top funnel asset. Target audiences want more engaging, interactive and human experiences online. Successful content teams are acquiring and inspiring their ideal audiences how, when and where they want at all stages of the customer journey.

In this lively roundtable, marketing content expert Steve Gershik and top marketers on the cutting edge of content will discuss:

- Leveraging the most compelling forms of content in 2018 at every stage of the buyer’s journey
- Making great storytelling a key part of your process
- Tips for measurement of content performance, connecting campaigns to revenue

The CMO role is in a time of great change. On the B2C side, we're seeing several noted CPG brands like Coca Cola eschewing the CMO role and instead hiring Chief Growth Officers. In B2B, there is some traction in the rise of CGOs but the broader trend shows the CMO role becoming much more metrics and revenue-driven. It's an exciting time for marketers but it's critical to understand what's driving this dramatic shift.

Liz Miller, SVP, Marketing at CMO Council will host a lively roundtable with several notable CMOs. In this session we'll explore why this shift is happening, how businesses should think about these leadership roles, and what this means for Marketing as a whole.

You'll learn:
- How the emergence of key technologies has powered the shift to CGOs and revenue-focused CMOs
- How the need for growth influences breaking down old siloes across organizations and placing big bets on innovation
- What a CGO does and whether your company needs one today

One of the best ways for companies to differentiate is by delivering a truly personal customer experience. In fact, today’s buyers have come to expect it. But customer interactions are happening on more applications and devices every day—so how do you ensure your customers get a seamless experience every time they contact your business, regardless of format or channel?

This session will take a deep dive into the next-generation technology that lets companies deliver an omnichannel contact center—one that uses every customer contact point and all relevant back-office information to create truly joyful journeys.